How To: Lighting - Foundations

Summary

This article describes the foundations of lighting placement.

Content

LowelEDU Offers a series of interactive tutorials to help you better understand key principles of lighting. In "Foundations of Lighting Placement" you'll better understand how placement of lighting will impact your subject.

"One of the first steps in any lighting setup is to decide where to place the lights. The most important light is the Key light, the main light on your subject. The second most important is the Fill light, which supports the Key light by filling in shadows that it creates on the subject. The placement of these 2 lights is the most important part of a basic lighting setup."

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Article ID: 670
Created
Fri 7/19/19 5:31 PM
Modified
Wed 1/19/22 10:51 AM
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